This ticket is for this individual session and costs £5, and you may purchase tickets for other individual sessions via the links below, or you may purchase a ticket for the entire course of 7 sessions at a cost of £28 via the link here.

Attendees will be sent a Zoom link 2 days prior to the start of the talk, and again a few hours before the talk. A link to the recorded session (available for 1 week) will be sent shortly afterwards.

Talk 1. Sat 23 Oct. Japanese-style Gardens in the British Isles: Part of a series of 7 online lectures, £5 each or all 7 for £28.

Talk 2. Thu 28 Oct. Key elements of Japanese Gardens: Part of a series of 7 online lectures, £5 each or all 7 for £28.

Talk 3. Fri 5 Nov. Therapeutic Landscapes of Japanese Gardens: Part of a series of 7 online lectures, £5 each or all 7 for £28.

Talk 4. Thu 11 Nov. A Ripple Effect: Part of a series of 7 online lectures, £5 each or all 7 for £28.

Talk 5. Thu 25 Nov. Modern Japanese Gardens in Japan: Part of a series of 7 online lectures, £5 each or all 7 for £28.

Talk 6. Fri 3 Dec. Islands of Peace: Part of a series of 7 online lectures, £5 each or all 7 for £28.

Talk 7. Thu 9 Dec. Tokachi Millennium Forest: Part of a series of 7 online lectures, £5 each or all 7 for £28.

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We are presenting a series of talks on Japanese Gardens, past present and future, in association with the Japanese Garden Society in the UK.

Dr Jill Raggett, an Emeritus Reader in Gardens and Landscapes at Writtle University College and long-time student of the history of Japanese style gardens in Britain and Ireland will open the series by exploring the legacy of such gardens in the British Isles. Jill will discuss why were they built, how stereotypes emerged and what the future holds. The author and academic, Yoko Kawaguchi, will describe the Japanese garden aesthetic in terms of the various styles and forms of Japanese gardens and their key elements. Later in the lecture series Yoko will explore how the Japanese garden aesthetic has developed in the modern gardens in Japan.

Japanese gardens are undoubtedly beautiful spaces and foster general wellbeing, but they can be used to realize additional social and cultural benefits. Professor Seiko Goto of Nagasaki University will present her research on how Japanese gardens impact on the behaviour and psychological state of viewers particularly the elderly or those suffering from Alzheimer’s and dementia. Hoichi and Michiko Kurisu of Kurisu International Inc will discuss the design of their Japanese gardens in Oregon which were integral to the community regeneration in Lebanon and prisoner rehabilitation at the State Penitentiary in Salem. Graham Hardmen of the Japanese Garden Society, Rebecca Bollands a primary school headmistress with a special interest in cross cultural education, and Robert Ketchell the Japanese garden creator will describe how a karensansui garden was constructed in the War Memorial Park in Coventry in collaboration with local schoolchildren. The garden is part of a wider cultural programme reflecting Coventry’s role as an International City of Peace.

The lecture series concludes with the internationally respected and most thoughtful designer Dan Pearson speaking about the design and development of Tokachi Millennium Forest, a naturalistic ecological public park garden in northern Japan. Dan will describe the big thinking and detailed consideration required to realise this long-term project which combines the culture, aesthetics, and horticultural practices of East and West.

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Talk 1. Sat 23 Oct @ 6.30: Japanese-style Gardens in the British Isles with Dr Jill Raggett

There are considerable challenges and issues in transplanting the Japanese garden to another country and these can be both philosophical and practical. The gardens we see in Britain inspired by the Japanese tradition are the result of the ongoing relationship between the two nations alongside the motivations, knowledge and skills of individual owners, designers, and gardeners and these will be explored.

There are new gardens being built, and old ones being restored and modified. The interpretation of Japanese-style gardens in Britain has been extremely diverse ranging from thoughtfully constructed interpretations striving for authenticity to a nod to a Japanese stereotype with the addition of lanterns, bridges or plants. The Japanese garden has been absorbed into British gardening culture along with plant species from and used in Japan, and a growing understanding of Japanese design techniques and maintenance skills

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Jill is a long-time member of the Japanese Garden Society and has studied historic Japanese-style gardens in Britain and Ireland for the last 35 years. She is an Emeritus Reader in Gardens and Designed Landscapes and is a tutor and assessor for the Royal Horticultural Society’s Master of Horticulture qualification. Jill is normally to be found in her garden trying to find a place for one more plant!

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